Bodo Fürneisen

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Bodo Fürneisen (born June 30, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

After training as a typesetter, Bodo Fürneisen began studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg, which he completed in 1977 with the diploma film The Discovery , for which he also wrote the screenplay. He then worked for two years as an assistant director.

As early as 1979, Fürneisen worked as a director and screenwriter for television films for the German television network, initially creating both dramatic and comedic films. In February 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, his first film, Zum Teufel mit Harbolla, premiered and was a hit with the public. He became known to a larger pan-German audience in 1989 with the fairy tale comedy Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste , which can still be seen annually on television's Christmas program. His 1990 drama The Rest, Who Stays (screenplay and direction) was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 1991. The film Scheusal (script: Wolfram Witt), which, like Thanner's new job, was made under his direction as one of the last films on GDR television, was the first all-German broadcast on ARD and received a jury award for an “outstanding Television event ”.

Fürneisen began writing scripts while working for GDR television and has since made several films based on his own literary models. After 1990 he works, represented in all German TV stations, in different genres from crime films, psychodrama and comedy to music and dance films.

From 1991 to 2008 he directed a total of ten cases in the TV crime series Polizeiruf 110 . In 1993 he shot a crime scene for the first time with the title Burned Game , in which Peter Sodann played the role of Chief Inspector Ehrlicher. Corinna Harfouch , Suzanne von Borsody and Henry Hübchen acted at his side . Four years later he directed the crossover episode Alptraum , in which Hannelore Elsner led the investigation as Lea Sommer from the ARD series Die Kommissarin . In 2009 he shot two more Tatort films, Tödlicher Einsatz with Ulrike Folkerts , in which Mirco Kreibich was awarded the Günter Strack Young Talent Award 2010 for his acting performance, and pig money with the commissioner duo Dominic Raacke and Boris Aljinovic . He worked for private television stations a. a.for Kommissar Rex , Wolffs Revier , Stockinger (all SAT 1) and Die Cleveren (RTL).

In addition to these works, the most notable films include A woman wants to go up (ARD, 1994), Terror in the name of love (SAT 1/1996), general anesthesia (ARD, 1997), dangerous truth (ZDF / 1998), two sides of love (ARD / 2001), The Temptation (ARD, 2003), One in Thousand (Pro7 / 2004), My Daughter, My Life (ARD / 2004) and My Husband, the Drinker (ARD, 2008). In 2008 he directed the film Frau Holle (2008) with Marianne Sägebrecht for the first time in the ARD fairy tale film series Six in One Stroke , followed by Rapunzel (2009) with Suzanne von Borsody (2009), The Princess on the Pea (2010) with Iris Berben , Jorinde and Joringel (2011) with Katja Flint and Der Prinz im Bärenfell (2015) with Miroslav Nemec . In 2012 he made another genre change with the film drama Komasaufen (ARD / broadcast: October 2013). Fürneisen is currently working with various producers on new projects in the direction of psychological drama.

Since October 2009, Bodo Fürneisen has been working as a professor for "media-specific representation" (film acting) in the "Acting" course at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

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SURNAME Fürneisen, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin